... better things to come. The office of Colonial Treasurer (salary £750 year) is vacant, and the poor relations of influential Whig families may apply to the Duke of Newcastle at Downing Street, between the hours of eleven and three o'clock. It is whispered ...

... the Congress, and the other advisers of the Crown are scattered here and there preparing for their annual festivities. The Whigs, having so far succeeded in weathering the gale and extricating themselves from the shoals and quicksands of foreign politics ...